Trichomyia notata Araújo & Bravo, 2016

Araújo, Maíra Xavier & Bravo, Freddy, 2016, Description of fourty four new species, taxonomic notes and identification key to Neotropical Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae), Zootaxa 4130 (1), pp. 1-76 : 59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080125

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A7ED58-F87C-6C29-6B98-FC1FB954A8EC

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scientific name

Trichomyia notata Araújo & Bravo
status

sp. nov.

Trichomyia notata Araújo & Bravo View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 35A–G View FIGURES 35 A – G )

Diagnosis. Two pairs of expansions on gonocoxite, one apical truncated and with hairs and one basal hand-like; two pairs of arms of gonocoxite, one medial with bristles and one basal medially directed, with hairs; ejaculatory apodeme 1.9 times longer than the gonostylus; elongate cercus with three apical rod-like setae.

Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna incomplete in the studied specimens; scape subcylindrical; pedicel subspherical; basal flagellomeres pyriform and centric ( Fig. 35A View FIGURES 35 A – G ); ascoids 1.4 times as long as the length of flagellomere ( Fig. 35D View FIGURES 35 A – G ). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.5 ( Fig. 35B View FIGURES 35 A – G ). Wing. R4+5 with unsclerotized base; r-m unsclerotized and mcu absent ( Fig. 35C View FIGURES 35 A – G ). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused with two pairs of expansions, one apical pair, truncated and with hairs and one basal pair hand-shape. Gonocoxites with two pairs of arms of gonocoxites, one medially, with bristles and one basal, medially directed, with hairs. Gonostylus slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare and subtriangular. Aedeagal complex with one pair of subtriangular projections. Aedeagus ending at midlle of projections in the aedeagal complex ( Fig. 35F View FIGURES 35 A – G ). Ejaculatory apodeme long, 1.9 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium longer than wide. Cercus elongate and digitiform ( Fig. 35G View FIGURES 35 A – G ) with three apical rod-like setae ( Fig. 35E View FIGURES 35 A – G ). Hypoproct with apical micropilosity. Epiproct subcircular and membranous ( Fig. 35G View FIGURES 35 A – G ).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Brazil, Rondônia, Cacaulândia, 200Km SSE of Porto Velho, 25.V–06.VI.1998, holotype ♂, L.W. Quate leg. ( MZFS)

Etymology. From latin, notata = notable, marked, pronounced, refers to the great and notable male terminalia.

Distribution. Brazil—Rondônia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Trichomyia

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